Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-08
NOTES FEMININE.

Olive Thorne Miller. the poetess, has
q daughter who has proved u decided
success in New York society the past
winter.
The lucky photographer who per-
suaded Mrs. Cleveland 20 give him sit
tingS for twenty-five negatives, last
still printing them at the rate of 200 a
day. He thinks that when the full
year Of sales is up 100, 900 of his pictures
viii be sold. The net profit for the first
eight months after the negatives were
taken was 5000.
An interesting case, involving a ter
rible miscarriage Of justice, will shortly
be revised by the Competent Court at
Jicin, in Bohemia. Six years ago the
Assize Court at Tabor sentenced TO 10
years penal servitude a man named
Jelinek. found guilty by the jury Of
attempting 90 poison his wife. After
the trial Frau Jelinek obtained legal
separation, went 20 America and mar
ried. She has just written 10 her pa
rents % say that her former husband
was innocent. She herself put the poi
son in a dish Of preserves, in order to
get up charge against Jelinek and thus
obtain separation.
Ouida is said by a near acquaintance
10 work in this way: All her literary
work is done in the early morning.
She rises every day at S O'Clock and
goes straight TO her library, where she
works tnres or four hours before par
taking of any breakfast. Before she
begins her literary work she works her
self up into a sort of literary trance.
Her enthusiasm IN whatever she at
tempts in literary way is very grSat,
and her pen moves like lightning over
the sheets before her. She writes very
quickly in 4 large hand, and, when
thoroughly enthused," sometimes
covers an entire sheet Of foolscap pa
per with only two or three lines OF i've
words each.
Mrs Mary L. Barr, who is making
herself known as a writer OF Scotch
dialect stories, hardly touched pen 10
paper up TO the age Of 81. She lost
her husband, who had been military
governor of Texas, aud seven children
In the space of p hours from yellow
fever, and found herself left with hfty
cents and four little ones on her hands.
In course OF time she drlfted 10 New
York and became a governess in the
family Of one Of A. 7. stewards part
ners. Her first tale, which was written
At the request and 70 crafty the within
OF her employer, dealt with life in the
old days in Texas aud found . publisher
with ease.
Miss Alice Freeman, the President
OF Wellesley College, i young woman
whom most OF her sex look upon as
born under a lucky star. With her
erect figure, dark hair, Big brown eyes,
and the glow in her cheeks, she looks
the embodiment OF Nineteenth Centu-
~ womanhood. conscious Of strength,
rejoicing in new opportunities. and
eager 20 put her just realized powers
70 the proof. Mss Freeman Is grad
uate q Michigan University. As .
woman her influence over other NO
men Is marked. Professors and stu
dents q Wellesley alike are loyal to
her. and commencement visitors have
odd experiences nov and then when
they seek the Presidents Rom Of an
evening and hnd q disconSolate grSdu-
Hse or tEo sobelng swAy in The dark
ness over . forgotten glove or bit OF
I lace, While the unconscious owner IS
enjoying the festivities Of The hour
somewhere outside.
Ms. kats Epson Clarke i another
woman AnthoT and Journalist who i
a. prue2 q hex kSsnAan - az her libra
~. Z kAE B-ookiyn EsnAgs, via ths
kA.s e s1s servant abe has 5seo known
- spraa6 Q oourss lanch Ser 9 party q
grssm which kappa theEn some four and
: bali hears al t4hle and which. The
salads excepted, vas q c0E.esfl1 nlan,
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